Radiator for automobiles.



G.. ENRICO. RADIATOR FOR AUTOMOBILES. APPLICATION FILED APR;21,1906.

Patented'nec. 2o, 1910.

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lGIOVANNI ENRICO, 0F TURIN, ITALY, ASSIGNOI-. BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO

F. I. A. T., OF POUGHKEEPSIE. NEW YORK, A CORPORATION 0F NEW YORK.

RADIATOR FOR AUTOMOBILES.

vSpecification of Letters Patent. i Patented Dec. 20, 1910.

Application filed April 21, 1906. Serial No.313,090,

structed as to be easily damaged by shocks,`

vibrations, or distortions, and the present invention provides means for connecting them with the general frame of the vehicle so as to diminish to the largest extent the edect of shocks, vibrations'or distortions of said frame upon the radiator.

The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawing wherein- Figure l shows a radiator supported in accordance with the present invention and Figs. 2 and 3 show respectively a side view and a section of the bearing on an enlarged scale.

In the drawings, 1 is the frame of a radiator which is provided with two pivots 2, 3, which are preferably made hollow for diminishing theirweight. Said pivots 2, 3,

are mounted freely into corresponding col-J lars 4, 5, formed with iianges 8, 9, iixed through bolts (3, 7, to the general frame of the vehicle 10. To the radiator are attached pipes-not shown in theV drawings-in the usual manner and said pipes form an elast-ic support lfor maintaining the radiator in its erect position and limiting its rotation about the pivots 2, 3.

Through the described construction the oscillations and vibrations of the frame l0 are prevented from being transmitted to the radiator' which is free to adapt'itself to each position assumed by the frame 10 by turning about pivots 2, 3, to the required extent. In order to take up the oscillations of the vehicle also in a transverse-direction, it is preferable to make the surface of the pivots'2, 3, convex as shown at Fig. 2 so that the same are vallowed slightly to oscillate within their collars when necessary. Preferably the construction is such that the beams of the frame 10 can spread 'or .move toward each other slightly without Iinterfering with the free connection of the radiator, This construction is shown in the drawing, wherein the collars 4 are spaced apart from the bases of the pivots 2, 3, and in which such collars may move outwardly without disturbing the connection.

What I claim iszl. The combination of an automobile body or the like, a radiator, and means for pivoting said radiator at each of its sides to said automobile body, so that it may tilt rela,- tively thereto, each of said means comprising two parts, one of which is movablerelatively to the other in a direction transverse to said body.

2. The combination of an automobile body or the like, a radiator, and means for pivoting said radiator to the sides of said body, said means comprising collars fixed to one of l said means comprising collars fixed to one of said parts and pivots fixed to the other of said parts, said collars and pivots being adapted topermit a lateral movement of said radiator in said frame, and said pivots being formed withV curved faces which engage said collars.

4. The combination of an automobile body i or the like, a radiator and .means for pivoting said radiator'to the sides of said body comprising collars 4, 5 fixed to said body, and pivots 2, 3 fixed to said radiator, said pivots having curved faces contacting with said collars and said parts being formed to permit lateral movement of the vsides of said frame toward and from each other.

5. The combination with an automobile frame and a radiator, of a radiator supporting saddle having longitudinally movable universal trunnion bearing connections with the frame.

6. The combination with an automobile frame and a radiator, of a' radiator support- 7o said parts and pivots fixed to the other of 'said parts, said collars and pivots being .movable relatively 1n a direction transverse ing saddle, having longitudinallymovable,

and the engine.

' 7. A trunnion-.support for radiators com- I prising a sulaporting-bracket providing :1 l having a horizontally'disposed beu-ringifir bearing; and a trmmion-journalecl n said coperation with said trunnioli. I bearing so as to have universal movement kIn witness Whereof,I have hereunto sined therein and slide relatively thereto.v 4 my name in the presence of two'su'bscrihng 5 8. Incombination,aradiator-franie,a supwitnesseer I port for said frame, and n universal joint4 connection between Said frame and support.

9. In Combination, a radiator-frame havlvtnesses.- y ing a ball-trunuion projecting horizontally MARIO vCAI UC;GI'C .10" therefrom, and .a support for said frame` -Go'rre'lmo' PIRONI. 

